Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Arthur Fils will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 3:00 pm on COURT 4. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alejandro Davidovich Fokina who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina is the pick to win this match.
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina -> 1.43
Arthur Fils -> 2.83
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Prediction and head to head Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Arthur Fils
This will be the 3rd time that Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Arthur Fils clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Davidovich Fokina (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Davidovich Fokina won 7-6(3) 6-1 6-2 in the 1st round in at the Wimbledon back in July 2023.
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12-5 | 11-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 20-22 | 13-12 | 2-5 | 5-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-28 | 18-11 | 9-8 | 3-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-26 | 7-9 | 11-8 | 0-6 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-25 | 4-6 | 16-7 | 9-10 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 25, Davidovich Fokina will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Beijing where he lost 6-7(4) 6-2 6-1 to Zverev in the 2nd round on the 30th of September.
The Spaniard has an aggregate 31-26 win-loss record in 2023, 18-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Alejandro’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Toronto.
Talking about his overall career, Alejandro has an overall 240-170 record. He has a positive 102-60 record on hard.
Previously in Shanghai
Alejandro has never competed in this tournament before.
Arthur Fils
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-28 | 15-9 | 14-10 | 7-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-24 | 5-4 | 13-8 | 21-10 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-28 | 0-1 | 23-15 | 20-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-26 | 3-2 | 29-17 | 1-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 44 (career-high), Fils got to the 2nd round after beating Pavel Kotov 6-1 6-4.
In the 1st round, Fils had a good straight sets win against Kotov (6-1 6-4). During the match Fils scored 61 points vs Kotov’s 47. The French player was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Fils struck 5 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Arthur Fils lost the serve once. Furthermore, Fils put 58% of his first serves in, winning 81% (26/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (10/23) on the 2nd serve. Fils broke Kotov 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Oeiras 2 Challenger where he defeated Joris De Loore in the final 6-1 7-6(4) and in Lyon where he defeated Francisco Cerundolo in the final 6-3 7-5.
Arthur has an overall 35-19 win-loss record in 2023, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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